Zinc and Lead

VANCOUVER – Pan American Silver has reported an initial resource estimate for its La Colorada Skarn deposit, outlining 102 million-oz. silver. The deposit was discovered last year east of the mine workings at its La Colorada mine in Zacatecas, Mexico.…

VANCOUVER – HighGold Mining has reported assays from another five drill holes in its nine-hole drill campaign at its Johnson Tract gold-copper-zinc property, 200 km southwest of Anchorage, Alaska. The project has seen past work, including drilling, in the 1980s…

BRITISH COLUMBIA – StrikePoint Gold announced that it is close to completing the acquisition of Mount Rainy Silver, a subsidiary of Skeena Resources that holds the interest in the Porter property in British Columbia. In a press release, StrikePoint said…

NORTHWEST TERRITORIES – Osisko Metals has released drill results from the East Mill zone at its Pine Point project with eight of the nine intercepts reported from outside of the current resource boundaries. This work was focused on connecting inferred…

MONTREAL – Osisko Metals announced that it has entered into an agreement with Osisko Gold Royalties to sell a 1.5% net smelter return royalty on the Pine Point project for $6.5 million. On October 15, Osisko Metals announced that it…

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO – Executives from Canada’s Ivanhoe Mines met with high ranking government officials in Kinshasa to provide updates on the development progress at the Kamoa-Kakula and Kipushi joint venture mining projects. In a press release, the miner…

NORTHWEST TERRITORIES – Vancouver-based NorZinc, owner of the Prairie Creek zinc-lead project 200 km west of Fort Simpson, has received the water licence and land use permit from Parks Canada for its portion of the all-season road to the mine…

NEW BRUNSWICK – Glencore’s decision earlier this month to permanently close its Brunswick lead smelter in New Brunswick by the end of the year, won’t interfere with the lead concentrate Trevali Mining produces at its Caribou mine, the company says. “While our…

NEW BRUNSWICK – Glencore Canada Corp. has announced the permanent closure of its Belledune lead smelter near Bathurst. The decommissioning process is to begin immediately, and the smelter will cease all operations by the end of the year. The news…

NORTHWEST TERRITORIES – Osisko Metals has tabled a resource update for its 100% owned Pine Point lead-zinc project on the south shore of Great Slave Lake. Inferred resources for the project stand at 52.4 million tonnes grading 4.64% zinc and 1.83%…

VANCOUVER – Trevali Mining Corp. released Q3 financial and operating results from its operations located in Canada, South America and Africa. Q3 zinc production came in at 106.8 million pounds payable, a new record for the company and a slight…